“Pre-viability, a woman has the constitutional right to end her pregnancy by abortion. H.B. 1390 effectively extinguishes that right within Mississippi’s borders,” the judges wrote. While the state argued that Mississippians could always just cross the border to get an abortion in another state, the court said that’s not a good enough excuse for violating their citizen’s rights. “Mississippi may not shift its obligation to respect the established constitutional rights of its citizens to another state.”

Admitting privilege laws have been passed in many southern states, with different responses from the courts. Texas’s admitting privilege law, identical to Mississippi’s, was upheld by another 5th Circuit panel last year. It seems that the courts consider closing the very last clinic in a state more extra-specially burdensome than shutting down half of the clinics in a state. While legally that may be, in the real world, in which people are actually trying to access abortions, it’s clear that neither Mississippi nor Texas are meeting the health care needs and constitutional rights of large swaths of their residents.

Women in the Rio Grande Valley are no less fucked just because they are “free” to travel 250 miles to San Antonio to end their pregnancies. Mississippi, a state of nearly 3 million people, still has just one single place to get an abortion. And the fact that a conservative court has to step in to ensure even that tells you all you need to know about how precarious the right to abortion in this country really is.

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Maya Dusenbery is an Executive Director in charge of Editorial at Feministing. Maya has previously worked at NARAL Pro-Choice New York and the National Institute for Reproductive Health and was a fellow at Mother Jones magazine. She graduated with a B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. A Minnesota native, she currently lives, writes, edits, and bakes bread in Atlanta, Georgia.

Maya Dusenbery is an Executive Director of Feministing in charge of Editorial.

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